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Originally Posted by Lucien Nunes
I remember somewhere - maybe a hall of residence or some rented accommodation where some friends were living - that had both the lighting circuit and the 2A socket outlets provided, fused right down to an amp or two to prevent them being used for heating appliances. It was generally understood that connecting a hairdryer or similar to the lighting circuit would leave you in darkness.
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The 'repurposed hotel' hall I mentioned above had this: however there were 15-amp round-pin sockets in some of the rooms and the corridors. There were also "Gyp rooms" on each floor, provided with enough power to run electric cookers/toasters/kettles - usually a 30A circuit for each Gyp-room.
Let's just say some of us had a truly creative disregard of electrical regulations, and learned the hard way that ex-army "Don.10" telephone cable was not suitable for making extension-leads to power kettles.